I knocked myself out once. My dachshund ran up & sat on my chest & watched me breath for a minute, than licked my face until she got slobber in my nose & I woke up. My friends said it was so cute how she was “trying to revive me”.

Pizza girl and Daren both, although Daren and the bar regulars didn’t seem to pay much notice, or rather they misunderstood when they did notice such as when Dietzel was playing jacks and Daren tossed them out as a choking hazard.

I’m really not surprised at Dietzel’s laid-back, (almost Perry Como caliber)attitude to the whole thing. My family has never owned a “normal” pet. A cat that begged for beans, a dog that loved to peel bananas, my sister-in-law’s cat that would have to sit in front of the stereo whenever an Alice In Chains song would come on, things like that. Dietzel waiting patiently for Monica to reach the logical conclusion is one of the reasons we love him.

If I didn’t know Dietzel was a stalwart and faithful companion, I’d almost guess he had something to do with her dropping the bottle, given that eye-roll in the 4th panel…a cold doggy-nose placed on a bare leg, say in panel 2, would have just that effect…

Try lying down on the floor and then hold a glass beer bottle away from your forehead at arms length, then drop it. You’ll be surprised how much that bottle weighs when it hits you. Especially base first like that.

Ma used to tell us about once, way back when, in the apartment we lived in when we first moved to Oakland CA, she left a empty Coke bottle (we had glass bottles then, when dinosaurs and Raiders ruled the earth) on the windowsill above her and Pop’s bed. Early the following morning, she reached up to get her eyeglasses, and pulled on the corner of the curtain. The bottle had been sitting on the curtain, and flipped off the sill. Ma said that the bottle had just enough time to turn one complete revolution before landing on Dad’s forehead right side up. It popped loud, the way empty glass bottles sound, and my dad jumped out of bed swinging, and Ma was already by the door, laughing and apologizing. He used to tell us she did it on purpose, but she had crazy luck like that. They passed away last year, but comedy like that is forever.